AMIRA
a film by :Mohamed Diab
Amira, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship since birth has been restricted to prison visits, he remains her hero. His absence in her life is overcompensated with love (...)
Egypt - Jordan - UAE - Saudi Arabia
98min - DCP - Scope - Color
Orignal language: Arabic, Hebrew
Among Adults
a film by :Stéphane Brizé
Six women and six men. Twelve adults who love, lie, manipulate, cheat, trust and break up. So goes (...)
France
78min - 35 mm - Color - Scope - DTS - Drama
Original language : French
ANGELE & TONY
a film by :Alix Delaporte
A small fishing harbour in Normandy. They have been sent on the same path by an ad. and Angèle enters in Tony's life. Angèle is rough and she knows nothing about love. her attempts at seducing him are met with rebuttal. Not like this, not this fast. he (...)
France
87min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language :French
Antonio's girlfriend
a film by :Manuel Poirier
This is a very simple love story. Antonio loves Claudie. Claudie, however is not so simple. Claudie is a young woman who struggles with reality. Little by little, the story of her life and her entourage emerges. Her friends, her family, her past. And now (...)
France
108min - 35mm - Color - 1.85 - Comedy drama
Original language :French
Apaches
a film by :Thierry de Peretti
Corsica / Extreme South / Summer: While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening, one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. (...)
France
82min - DCP - 1.33 - Color
Original language: French
APRIL CAPTAINS
a film by :Maria De Medeiros
In Portugal, late in the night of April 24 to 25, 1974, the radio broadcast an outlawed song: “Grândola”. It could have just been an act of insubordination by a rebellious journalist. It was in fact the preplanned signal triggering the military coup (...)
Portugal - Spain - Italy
120min - 35mm - 1.85- Color
Original language: Portuguese
New master 4K
AS HE COMES
a film by :Christophe Chiesa
After five years in New York, Julie comes back to Annemasse with her baby Nina. They stay with her sister Lou in the apartment she shares with her brother Hugo. Julie finds it difficult to fit back into the town where they grew up. Lou, on the other hand, (...)
France
73min - 1.85 - Color - Drama
Original language: French
AUCTION
a film by :Pascal Bonitzer
André Masson, an auctioneer at the famous Scottie’s auction house, receives a letter one day stating that a painting by Egon Schiele has been discovered in Mulhouse at the home of a young worker. Very skeptical, he makes the trip and has to face the (...)
France
91 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color
Original language : French
BAB EL WEB
a film by :Merzak Allouache
Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab El Oued, a working class neighborhood of Algiers. Kamel is a disillusioned, brooding loner. The more jovial Bouzid is an internet fanatic. He spends all his time in a cybercafé "chatting" with girls all over the (...)
France
99min - 35 mm - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Comedy
Original language : French / Arabic
BABY BALLOON
a film by :Stefan Liberski
Bici is 18 and leaves in Lieges. She is curvy and talented, she is a singer in a rock band in which Vince, her childhood friend, plays the guitar. Bici has always been secretly in love with him. When Anita shows up in the life of the group and particularly (...)
Belgium - France
84min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Comedy drama
Original language: French
Back home
a film by :Jessica Palud
This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is going down the same road, and his father, who has always stood aloof. Thomas gets back to everything he ran away from twelve years ago. (...)
France
77min - DCP - 1.66 - Color
Original language: French
BARBER OF SIBERIA (The)
a film by :Nikita Mikhalkov
1885. Jane Callahan, a young American woman, goes to Russia. During the train trip that leads her to this new world, she has to share her compartment with a group of childish and boisterous cadets. Among them is Andrei Tolstoï, a smart and impassionate (...)
Russia - France
180min - 35mm - Scope - Color - Drama, Romance
Original language: Russian, English, French, German
BEATING SUN
a film by :Philippe Petit
Max doesn’t dream of making green walls for five-star hotels. Tenacious landscaper, committed but cornered, he fights to create a wild garden, without fence, in the heart of a big city: a plant area open to all. After years of rejection, his project (...)
France
85min - DCP - 1.85 - Color
Original language: French
BEFORE WE COLLAPSE
a film by :Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais
In the midst of a Parisian heatwave, Tristan, campaign manager for a candidate during the legislative elections, receives an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test. Because he may have an incurable hereditary disease, Tristan become obsessed (...)
France
100min - DCP - Scope - Color
Original language - French
BEIJING BICYCLE
a film by :Wang XiaoShuai
Beijing today. Guei has just arrived from his village. He is 16. He finds a job at a delivery service that cleans him up, clothes him, and lends him a bicycle: a magnificent silver mountain bike. The company pays well, but Guei must pay part of the money (...)
Taiwan - France
113min - 35mm - 1.85 - Color
Original language: Chinese
BELLE EPINE
a film by :Rebecca Zlotowski
Prudence Friedmann,17, is suddenly alone and adrift in the family apartment. She meets Marilyne, a high school misfit who introduces her to the illegal race circuit of Rungis where souped-up mopeds and muscle bikes race against each other, undaunted by (...)
France
80min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language :French
BENARES
a film by :Barlen Pyamootoo
« Last night I won two thousand ruppies playing cards…Mayi told me, I would like us both to bring a woman back to the house. Tonight… » Such is the start of this singular odyssey situated in Mauritius over the course of a sole evening - which never (...)
France
75min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SR - Drama
Original language :Mauritian Creole
BETELNUT BEAUTY
a film by :LIN Cheng-sheng
The high summer heat is unbearable. A violent storm brings Xiao-feng and Feifei together as they both seek shelter. An unenthusiastic baker, Xiao-feng is not satisfied with the money he earns. Fei-fei meets Yili in the disco where she (...)
Taiwan - France
103min - 35mm - 1.85 - Color
Original language: Chinese
Betrayal (The)
a film by :Philippe Faucon
In 1960, during the Algerian civil war, Lieutenant Roque is a French officer worn out by the meandering conflict. Roque and his men have been posted to a small, isolated village. His role is, officially, to pacify the Algerians, and to convince of the « (...)
France - Belgium
80min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language : French & Arabic
Big Girl Like You (A)
a film by :Christophe Blanc
This is a story about Sabine who, at the ripe old age of 16, from the depths of her hotel school, believes that life is mapped out for her ; the story of a young girl who is taught to wait on others and who is deeply displeased by it, well aware that, (...)
France
87min - 35 mm shot in DV - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SR - Drama
Original language : French
Biquefarre
a film by :Georges Rouquier
38 years later, Roch and Berthe are still living at Farrebique. As his grand father had foretold, Raymond has taken over running the farm. But the times have changed and the farms in the area have been transformed : specialization, mass production, (...)
France
90min - 35mm - 1.66 - Color - Documentary
Original language: French
BITTER MONEY
a film by :Wang Bing
In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there are little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relations. (...)
France - China - Hong Kong
152min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Documentary
Original language: Mandarin
Blindfolded
a film by :Thomas LILTI
After years of absence, Théo has to return to his childhood town. Martin, the boy he grew up with in a foster family, is accused of raping and killing several young women. Théo doesn't believe it. He wants to save his (...)
France
80min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language : French
BLOODY MILK
a film by :Hubert Charuel
Pierre is a 30-year-old dairy farmer. His life revolves around the family farm he took over, his cows, his veterinarian sister and his parents. When the first cases of an epidemic disease break out in France, Pierre finds out one of his animals is (...)
France
90min - DCP - Color
Original language: French
BLUE GATE CROSSING
a film by :Yee Chih-Yen
Meng is a 17 year-old high school student who often laments that she is no longer a carefree soul. She is been carrying one secret for too many years. One day, she decides to unburden her secret on Zhang, a fellow 17 year old. Zhang, a blithe spirit, is the (...)
Taiwan - France
85min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language :Chinese
From the collection Tales of Changing China